City of Philadelphia - File #: 030542

• File #: 030542
• Version: 0
• Type: Privileged Resolution
• Status: ENACTED
• File created: 6/12/2003
• In control: CITY COUNCIL
• Final action: 6/12/2003
• Title: Recognizing and congratulating the members of the Roxborough High School Student Voices Program, and the coordinator of the program, Michael Horwits, for winning top overall honors, earning the Grand Prize for Best Overall Project, in the Philadelphia Student Voices Civics Fair.
• Sponsors: Councilmember Rizzo, Councilmember Rizzo, Councilmember Mariano, Councilmember Mariano, Councilmember Goode, Councilmember Goode, Councilmember Nutter, Councilmember Nutter, Councilmember Reynolds Brown, Councilmember Reynolds Brown, Councilmember Miller, Councilmember Miller, Councilmember Ortiz, Councilmember Ortiz, Council President Verna, Council President Verna, Council President Verna, Councilmember Blackwell, Councilmember Blackwell, Councilmember Blackwell, Councilmember DiCicco, Councilmember DiCicco, Councilmember DiCicco, Councilmember Kenney, Councilmember Kenney, Councilmember Kenney, Councilmember Tasco, Councilmember Tasco, Councilmember Tasco, Councilmember Clarke, Councilmember Clarke, Councilmember Clarke, Councilmember O'Neill, Councilmember O'Neill, Councilmember O'Neill

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
6/12/2003	0	CITY COUNCIL	ADOPTED
6/12/2003	0	CITY COUNCIL	ADOPTED
6/12/2003	0	CITY COUNCIL	READ
6/12/2003	0	CITY COUNCIL	READ
6/12/2003	0	CITY COUNCIL	Introduced	Pass
6/12/2003	0	CITY COUNCIL	Introduced	Pass

Title
Recognizing and congratulating the members of the Roxborough High School Student Voices Program, and the coordinator of the program, Michael Horwits, for winning top overall honors, earning the Grand Prize for Best Overall Project, in the Philadelphia Student Voices Civics Fair.
Body
WHEREAS, On May 28, 2003, Philadelphia high school students from sixteen schools gathered at the University of Pennsylvania for the Philadelphia Student Voices Civics Fair as part of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania's National Student Voices Project; and

WHEREAS, The Student Voices Project encourages the civic engagement of young people by bringing the study of local government, policy issues, and political campaigns into the classroom. Working with school districts throughout the country, the Student Voices Project makes the study of government relevant and exciting for high school students by helping them examine how issues they consider important are played out in their own governments and local election campaigns; and

WHEREAS, The Student Voices Project is intended to increase students' knowledge and understanding of political processes and institutions, as well as their ability to find information and make use of it to participate in the public sphere; and

WHEREAS, With the leadership and guidance of Michael Horwits, Roxborough students won top overall honors, earning the Grand Prize for Best Overall Project, by focusing on increasing the civic engagement of their community by holding a candidate forum for at-large City Council candidates; conducting an exit poll at local polling places on Election Day; producing and distributing a non-partisan voters' guide; and discussing the issues of most concern to them with candidates who visited their classroom; now therefore

RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, We hereby recognize and congratulate the members of the Roxborough High School Student Voices Program, a...